LASERVISION 2021 HIGHLIGHTS

With a challenging yet successful 2021—a year that will be remembered by the entertainment industry in Australia and around the world as one of the toughest entertainment seasons we’ve seen—we are extremely grateful for all of our clients and business partners around the globe.

Everything from travel and logistics to manufacturing and design was filled with all-new challenges that we successfully navigated to continue to provide our clients exceptional entertainment solutions for their audiences and visitors. We are grateful and thank each and every one of you for your professionalism, belief in our amazing Creative and Engineering teams, and encouragement throughout the last few years of this pandemic. As we begin 2022, we wanted to take a look back on the highlights and most memorable moments from 2021.

Below is a snapshot of some of our favourite installations, events and immersive experiences we had the pleasure of creating in 2021!

Watch this space because 2022 is going to be even more incredible for LASERVISION and our clients!

FOUNTAIN & WATER SHOWS

Adding to our incredible portfolio of permanent water, light and sound shows and modular special event water shows, we’ve continued to raise the bar for our clients around the world as we introduce even more choices in our product offerings for our fountain and water-based shows. Our new addition of modular fountain elements for short-term installations means we can create a bespoke fountain experience for all of our clients, large and small. From 10 meters to 1,000 meters, we can provide incredible and immersive water show experiences almost anywhere.

Vietnam – Light, Water and Sound Show (Soon to be released)

Our Guinness World-record winning fountain design team were back at it again during 2021 heading to Vietnam and installing one of our largest fountain shows to date with over 273 towering fountains that span over 200 meters in a brand-new luxury precinct and development in Vietnam. The installation and creative team were hard at work over 2021 installing over 75 kilometres of cabling, 20 kilometres of piping, and all of the infrastructure needed to create the massive fountain show that pumps an astonishing 14,000 cubic metres of water an hour. That’s enough to fill an Olympic size swimming pool in less than 10 minutes!

Production still continues on this incredible show and we can’t way to unveil this achievement of ours. LASERVISION has produced a number of headlining shows for this attraction and we look forward to launching these in early 2022.

‘Mandurah Alive!’ – Australia Day Fountain and LASER Show

Audiences in Mandurah, WA were entertained with a spectacular show featuring content celebrating the story and culture of the local community. Our vast array high powered lasers, projection technologies, moving-head fountains, intelligent lighting, special effects and customised water screens span 140 meters in length. Learn more about the ‘Mandurah Alive’ or Wollongong Australia Day Shows here!

Water & LASER Performance for The Heavy Vehicle Industry Australia

LASERVISION Celebrated the Heavy Vehicle Industry of Australia at Streets Beach Pool at the famous South Bank Truck Festival in Brisbane, QLD. This is the first time fountain and LASER technology were featured at Streets Beach Pool and we were honoured to bring such a spectacular show to a unique and iconic space. Learn more about our Water Fountain, Projection and LASER performance here!

LUNA LIGHT JOURNEYS

LASERVISION’s LUNA Light Journeys are quite the hit as we introduced our COVID-safe night journey experiences to our clients during the height of COVID restrictions. They have since evolved into some of our most beautiful experiences and are a crowd favourite for many of our communities. These beautiful creations allow for the natural exploration of transformed community spaces via our night-walk product. We transform these spaces into innovative and immersive stories for our visitors and the response had been incredible. LUNA Light Journeys feature some of our newest creations and story-telling mediums with the introduction of our interactive projection mapping, colourful pixel-mapping, hologram technology, elegant light sculptures, fibre-optics, LASER and all of the unique creative innovations you can find with LASERVISION.

‘The Enchanted Garden’ – Brisbane, QLD

Running from the 1-23 of December, Roma Street Parkland opened to a sold-out crowd and morphed into a breath-taking enchanted garden featuring nearly 8000 square metres of custom-made lighting, audio, special effects, digital light sculptures, high-powered lasers and newly developed interactive projections and hologram technology delivering a world-class digital art experience in the heart of Brisbane. Click here to learn more about our largest interactive light show in Brisbane.

‘Awaken’ – Bendigo Brought to Light – Bendigo, VIC

Every night over the period of 26 June 2021 – 17 July 2021, Bendigo’s beautiful Rosalind Park was transformed with a series of vibrant installations that engaged and immersed regional visitors to Bendigo in an unforgettable sensory experience. This LUNA Light Journey attracted nearly 65,000 people from all over Bendigo and the surrounding region. Considering the measures that were taken to control attendance and provide a COVID-safe experience, having a sold-out show, every single night, was incredible! Using projection, holograms, LASERs, lighting and special effects; each installation captured Bendigo’s stories of the city and its rich history, through a radiant display of light, colour and sound in a spectacular fashion. Learn more about ‘AWAKEN’ here.

SPECIAL EVENTS

NYE LASER Light Show – Orange, NSW

This modern sensory experience was created for the New Year’s Eve celebration entertaining thousands of community spectators at Wayde Park, Orange, NSW. The 16-minute light spectacular was a huge success with thousands watching from the venue as well as thousands more from the Live Stream that was broadcasted due to the event being sold out and to provide a safe environment during COVID restrictions. This awesome LASER and Light show is one of our favourite 360-degree immersive LASER shows!

Porsche Taycan Launch Event

MARVEL’s Eternals Launch Event

NEW LASERVISION TECHNOLOGIES

LASERVISION Holograms

LASERVISION’s hologram technology is allowing us to create uber-realistic creations and storytelling elements in our client’s natural habitats, venues and exhibits around the work. Our last permanent hologram was used to tell a rich and historical account unveiled for an edutainment exhibit for Caboolture Historical Village, in QLD, Australia. Using our unique hologram technology, this exhibit welcomes visitors with a life-like recreation of Mr. William Geddes, ‘Lord of Caboolture,’ and the first Postmaster at the very same Post Office building where he worked back in 1869. Our hologram technology is also prominently in our LUNA Light Journeys, so please do take a look at the above content as well.

A Hologram displaying a mystical stag is seamlessly nestled within the natural environment during this evening light trail experience

LASERVISION Interactive Projection Mapping

LASERVISION recently unveiled our latest technology for large-scale projection mapping by adding a revolutionary interactive element to further engage our audiences and set ourselves apart as a leading entertainment provider.

Projection mapping has been used for years to fill up large spaces with dramatic and immersive video on a variety of surfaces such as buildings, structures, sculptures and pathways. We’ve taken our proven projection-mapping technologies used all over the world and have allowed our audiences to control the content and interact with and become further immersed in our storytelling creations. We use a variety of technologies to real-time track the audience such as LiDAR, Stereo-imagery and classic electromechanical solutions. Combined with our real-time imagery and creative software we are able to bring our vision and stories to life and make the audience an active participant in shaping and changing the story on their journey.

Water Screen Projection – How We Created the World’s Largest Water Screen

Water Screen Projection

Used for live entertainment, larger than life storytelling, immersive advertising and unique special events, Water Screen Projection is an innovative entertainment medium that LASERVISION has been perfecting for more than 30 years. While our proprietary water screens are some of the largest in the industry, we definitely outdid ourselves in 2017 when we created and set the Guinness World Record for “Largest Water Screen Projection” for the ‘IMAGINE’ attraction at Dubai Festival City Mall. After 3 years of continuous operation, let’s take a look at what it takes to create a record-setting tourism attraction and how our creative and technical teams created one of the world’s best water, light and sound shows!

‘IMAGINE’

Launched in December of 2016, the ‘IMAGINE’ – Water, Fire and Light Show has become one of Dubai’s shining beacons and highly trafficked tourism destinations. Commissioned by Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate(AFGRE) to design, create, install and maintain the 360-degree spectacular, LASERVISION set two Guinness World Records in the process of creating the tourism solution that has made Dubai Festival City Mall what it is today. The technology-filled and reprogrammable venue is primarily set in the beautiful waterfront of Festival Bay where the record Water Screen projection, dancing fountains, flame effects and water technologies are the main focus. The record-setting projection mapping solution is projected onto the iconic Intercontinental Hotel and a multitude of lighting, LASER and audio technologies are throughout the Festival Bay grounds. These technologies all culminate to form a 360-degree entertainment experience that allows for IMAGINE’s nightly signature shows, beautiful dancing fountain shows, LASER shows, calendar events and national celebrations, as well as many promotional and advertising opportunities.

Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Water Screen

At a screen size of almost 900 square-metres, the main audience water screen projection at Dubai Festival City’s ‘IMAGINE’ towers over the audience at a staggering 20 metres tall and is the perfect medium to create larger-than-life effects and ethereal storytelling elements. Used as the main projection and visual storytelling surface, the main water screen is accompanied by three additional water screens on the north and south side audience viewing areas. These incredible water screens allow for over 10,000 people to gather and feel completely immersed in the shows at ‘IMAGINE.’

The water screens, a patented design by LASERVISION, are some of the most optically stable screens in the world, allowing for bright and crisp imagery to be rear-projected onto the surface. But all that screen real estate would be for nought if it wasn’t for the incredible amounts of water that needed to be precisely pumped through the massive system. Enter the “brains” of the operation and where our water technologies begin their journey through the 60,000 square metre waterbody of Festival Bay—the centrepiece.

The centrepiece is a bespoke, 34-metre floating media control platform positioned in the centre of the Festival Bay, weighs over 800 tonnes and is the main focal point of the attraction. This iconic element;

houses several control systems for water, fire and lighting technologies
is the main location for our water technology’s pumps, filtration, sanitisation, and control systems
contains many of the LASERs and Panasonic Projectors used on the Water Screens
is a base of operations for our maintenance team and show operators
Dynamically adjusts to tide variations ensuring show consistency
Supports the 2 kilometres of custom-built, marine-grade fountain structures
features a hydraulic lifting system that lowers and raises the structure vertically by 2 metres for activation in shows.

LASERVISION IMAGINE Water Screen Install Team Photo

The LASERVISION Engineering, Technical and Install Team on the IMAGINE Site.

Creating a world-record-setting water screen is not just challenging from an engineering aspect, but developing creative content that is grand enough for the largest water screen in the world was a big achievement for the LASERVISION creative team. Our award-winning creative team created two fanciful and image-rich narratives for ‘IMAGINE’, Stardancer and A Child’s Dream, launched in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The record water screen was perfect to tell the larger than life stories that were created by the team. It created the perfect screen to tell the stories with a classic narrative style, while also seamlessly blending and expanding around the venue with all of the other entertainment technologies. The programming of all the elements in the bay, as well as the Intercontinental Hotel’s Projection mapping and hundreds of LED lighting and special effects, are a sight to behold. To read more about the incredible journey of the creative team and see the inner workings of what kind of fun we get up to in the studio, check out our page dedicated to the creative team at LASERVISION and their amazing creation of IMAGINE.

It took over 4 years of design and technical engineering to develop the record-setting attraction that is now ‘IMAGINE’, as well as a full year of installation and programming to get the shows zeroed in such a spectacular and record-setting performance not seen anywhere else in the world. You can still see the magnificent ‘IMAGINE’ attraction and all of the amazing show offerings our creative and engineering teams are so proud of and we consider one of our favourite projects. For more information about visiting ‘IMAGINE,’ you can visit Dubai’s Festival City Mall’s website for current schedules.

The Versatility of Water Screens

Although ‘IMAGINE’ may be the crowning jewel of our water screen technology, we continue to innovate and use water screen projection in so many of our shows and events around the world. From the Sydney Olympics through to shows at Six Flags, Marina Bay Sands, bespoke special events, and international film festivals, the versatility of water screens to create magical and holographic-like imagery can be utilised in many settings to create incredible special effects, gigantic presentations, advertising spaces and cinematic experiences.

A Brilliant Effect of LASER Combined with Projection on a LASERVISION Water Screen

LASERVISION water screens are designed to work in both saltwater or freshwater environments, come in several sizes, and can be used for permanent installations as well as special events, celebrations, and calendar and corporate events. Water screens are the perfect projection surface for high definition video as well as LASER graphics and beam shows and can be used stand-alone, in a water screen array or with other media and entertainment technologies.

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LASERVISION Water Screens are perfect for advertising and product launches. The unique medium is a real show stopper and attention grabber.

Our water screen technology can be incorporated into smaller water bodies or even artistic sculptures, such as our innovative and bespoke sculptured water screen at Reem Central Park’s multimedia sculpture fountain.

Reem Central Park - A Day at the Seaside Water Screen

LASERVISION’s Iconic ‘Wave’ sculpture fountain with integrated water screen at Reem Central Park, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Our Communities Need Us More Than Ever

At this unique time in our history, COVID-19 continues to impact the health of our loved ones, our industries and the global economy. As we all continue to navigate through these evolving challenges, we want you to know that LASERVISION is here for you.

In our more than 35 years of operation, we’ve weathered droughts, floods, bush fires, international financial crises and other major disruptors that have impacted the tourism and travel industries. Throughout, we have worked to support and sustain our employees, our customers, and our partners around the world. As we deal with this current situation, we remain optimistic and are looking towards the future as we continue in our commitment to you and our partners.

We stand ready to help you rebuild, as these challenging times will surely pass again. When they do, we need to be there for our communities and provide the venues, experiences, and events to help bring the community back together again.

Stay safe,

The LASERVISION Team

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